User talk:Andrewa/A proposal regarding capital letters in article titles

A work in progress

Not yet ready to put it, obviously. But comments here always welcome. Andrewa (talk) 16:34, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Style vs content

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles&diff=768234135&oldid=768225868 is an interesting post, making a strong distinction between style and content of article titles. Andrewa (talk) 00:06, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Recent RMs

• Talk:Cambrian Line#Requested move 4 March 2017, and see also the history above it. Andrewa (talk) 03:25, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
• Talk:Polar Class#Requested move 11 March 2017 Cap was added to "class" Andrewa (talk) 09:49, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
• Talk:IPad (7th generation)#Caps as a small difference Still ongoing, proposal to use cap to distinguish got no support but an interesting example nevertheless. Andrewa (talk) 05:54, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
• Living history is another example, see RM close here. Andrewa (talk) 18:00, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
• Talk:North West Cambridge Development#Requested move 31 October 2017 - interesting. Andrewa (talk) 11:44, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
• Talk:Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway#Requested move 5 November 2017 Caps seem harmless and add information, but under current guidelines will be removed. Andrewa (talk) 14:52, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
• Talk:List of Prime Ministers of Israel#Requested move 8 July 2018 links to related discussions
• Talk:Cultural catholic various sections

See also

• Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy, an essay that seems largely aimed towards suppressing use of capitals, but whose main points may better support the case for using them.
• User:SMcCandlish/Organism names on Wikipedia, a work in progress towards a comprehensive index of the many often bitter discussions regarding capitalisation in this area.
• User talk:Andrewa/Archive 10 is dedicated to previous discussions on the topic, a bit meandering and not all that useful.
• Previous attempts:
  • User:Andrewa/On the Correct Use of capital letters and User talk:Andrewa/On the Correct Use of capital letters
  • User:Andrewa/On Capitalisation and User talk:Andrewa/On Capitalisation
  • User:Andrewa/Capitalisation in article titles and User talk:Andrewa/Capitalisation in article titles

More to follow. Andrewa (talk) 05:52, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

an on-the-run decision by the earliest editors

Interesting and relevant argument here, specifically it was an on-the-run decision by the earliest editors. Similarly, the aversion to capitalisation was a unilateral suggestion by Larry Sanger, who said at the time it was a personal preference, and it has never been overturned... or justified. Andrewa (talk) 16:18, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

More points for discussion

Godwin's law should IMO be Godwin's Law, similarly Pascal's Law 20:51, 8 July 2005‎ Michael Hardy (talk | contribs | block)‎ . . (26 bytes) (+26)‎ . . (Pascal's Law moved to Pascal's law: Capitalization of this "L" conflicts with Wikipedia conventions).

But it's an uphill battle obviously.

Also interesting comment here and my reply re capitalisation of verbal use of proper nouns. Andrewa (talk) 17:39, 28 June 2018 (UTC)